So you know, you know, and if you don't know, I'll let you into it right now.

Today's episode of Retro Ups and Downs is basically going to focus on steam.

So that's right, we are staying for the rest of this video, and as you can see, we've

learnt two things.

One, it's really hard to do makeup and two, I'm not very good at doing makeup.

It's 16 months, 16 months, that's how patient WCW was when it came to the reveal and build

up of the new stink character, after he had gone, I don't want to be a surfer guy anymore,

and I'm going to turn into this weird half man, half crow thing, who just looks at people,

but scares the absolute shit out of them.

So you've got to give it to World Championship Wrestling for holding off for this long, and

everybody loved it, and I wasn't joking what I said a minute ago, sometimes on Nitro,

he would just turn up and stare, but for some reason it was the greatest thing you'd ever

seen, and if you want to know how popular this was, he was the second biggest merchandise

seller of this period, the first being Flubbing Stone Karl Steve Austin.

And all of this was basically the equivalent of that ninja in the Simpsons, the Homer desperately

wants to see, but then Marge makes him close the curtains, and he isn't able to see the

carnage.

Every single wrestling fan on the planet knew that eventually Sting would compete in a

wrestling ring, and all he had to do was be a bunch of people up.

That was it, it didn't matter if he'd tunked them with a bat, it didn't matter if he'd

started pulling people's underwear off, as always when we got to the end of whatever this

was going to be, Sting still came across like a badass, everybody would have been joyous,

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